Resume

EDUCATION

2022 B.A. Art Education, University of Wyoming

2009 M.F.A., School of Art & Design, University of Michigan

2005 B.F.A., University of Wyoming



TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2019 - Current K-12 Art Teacher, Fremont County School District #38, Arapahoe, WY


2022 Spring Residency for Secondary Art, Fremont County School District #38,

Arapahoe, WY // Mentor: Curtis Mayer, UW Supervisor: Shawna

Pickinpaugh

2022 Spring Residency for Elementary Art, Fremont County School District #38,

Arapahoe, WY // Mentor: Mindy Doebele, UW Supervisor: Shawna

Pickinpaugh


2019 Summer Guest instructor, Drone Camp, Arapahoe Middle School, Arapahoe, WY

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2019 Summer Guest instructor, 3 week Summer School, Arapahoe Middle School, Arapahoe, WY



2017 Summer Instructor, Summer Teaching Institute, UW Art Museum & Berry Biodiversity Institute, Laramie, WY



2014 - 2017 Instructor, Front Range Community College, Fort Collins, CO:

  • Visual Concepts 3D Design

  • Sculpture I & II

  • Socially Engaged Art Seminar (SP 2014)



2016 Summer Guest instructor, Lander Art Center, Lander, WY.



2015 Fall Instructor, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO:

  • Art 184 : 3D Design

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2012 Assistant, Native Emerging Artist Training, Lander Art Center, Lander, WY



2006 - 2009 Graduate Student Instructor, University of Michigan School of Art & Design, Ann Arbor, MI



PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2017 - 2019 Field technician / photographer / graphic designer, University of Wyoming Department of Ecosystem Science & Management, Laramie, WY



2011 - Current Freelance Graphic Designer

Duties and skills:

  • Customer service, consult and plan with clients regarding marketing projects and graphic design products

  • Time management, set and meet deadlines

  • Identify, network with, and maintain relationships with appropriate print media and web design professionals



2012 - 2017 Co-owner and Primary Graphic Designer, Featherz Six Art & Design

Duties and skills:

  • Communication, Customer Service, Time management

  • Logo, poster, and other print design for multiple clients

  • Photography and videography services

  • Creation of original artwork and limited edition merchandise

  • Small business management and bookkeeping



2009 - 2011 Coordinator / Manager, Wyoming Kids First Grant, Shoshone & Arapaho Tribes, Wind River Indian Reservation, Fort Washakie, WY:

Duties and skills:

  • Work under the direction of tribal business council members and non-profit Executive Director

  • Prepare and execute presentations to officials and boards

  • Recruit partners and stakeholders to a community partnership project

  • Coordinate and facilitate meetings

  • Compile research and draft community assessment, strategic plan and public engagement plan

  • Plan and organize public engagement and media events




AWARDS & GRANTS

2020 New Teacher Outstanding Contributions award, Fremont County School District #38

2019 Wyoming State Historical Society 1st Place Fine Arts award

2018 Shepard Symposium Social Justice Community Award

2018 Biodiversity in Arts Grant, the Biodiversity Institute

2017 Outstanding Part-Time Instructor Award, CADHu, Front Range Community College

2011 Wyoming Arts Council Visual Arts Fellowship

2007 Dybvig/Redstone Award, University of Michigan School of Art & Design

2003 - 2005 President’s Honor Scholarship, University of Wyoming



SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Co-curated

2008 Elbow Grease, Work Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI



One-person

2009 classiFICTIONs: Ann Arbor, MI

2006 White Trash Beautiful, University of Wyoming



Group

2026 Building a New World from the Shell of the Old, Gorgon Gallery, Laramie, WY

 

2021 Wyoming Creative Collectives Exhibit, ART 321, Casper, WY



2019 Plants, Place, & People: Intersections in Art, Ecosystem Science & Indigenous Knowledge, Biodiversity Institute, Laramie, WY



2018 Dispute.  Frontier Space, Missoula, MT



2017 Topophilia.  Visual Arts Gallery, University of Wyoming, Laramie WY



2015 UNC Faculty Show, Greeley, CO



2014 Wyoming Art Party “Portrait of Wyoming”, Laramie, WY, Jackson Hole, WY, and Lander, WY



2013 Overlaps, Laramie WY



2011 Wyoming Arts Council Fellowship Biennial Exhibition, Jackson Hole, WY



2011 Action Figures! Cobalt Gallery, Chicago, IL



2008 Hung.  The Hangar, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI



2008 ICON: Work: Detroit, Detroit, MI



2008 UP: an Exhibition of Hovering, Folding, Inflating and Wheeling Sculpture.  Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI

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2008 Pathways, Work: Detroit, Detroit, MI



2007 Waiting for Translation.  Warren Robbins Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI



2007 Mix Mitate, Act Station, Hikone, Japan



2007 If Other, Please Explain, Work Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI



COMMISSIONS 

2018 - 2020 campaign design for Andi Clifford, candidate for Wyoming House of Representatives



2018 Wild West (Social) Justice mural, Laramie Mural Project, Laramie, WY



2015 Statewide Primary Prevention campaign design, Wyoming Coalition Against Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault



2014 Original artwork design, UW Art Museum Ann Simpson Artmobile vehicle wrap



2013 Logo and poster design, informational handouts and web marketing for Women Restored program and ESCAPE youth program of the Eastern Shoshone Tribe



2012 Logo design, poster campaign and promotional materials for Shoshone & Arapaho Tobacco Prevention program



2012 Photography, logo, and cover design for Tribal PRAMS survey for the Wyoming Department of Health



COLLABORATIVE & COMMUNITY PROJECTS

2018 “The Art & Action Project,” Laramie, WY

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2015 - 2017 “Laramie Pop-Up Artwalk,” Wyoming Art Party, Laramie, WY



2016 “The Parade Project,” Wyoming Art Party

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2016 “Sherman Sage” Public Mural, Downtown Laramie



2014 “Gill Street” Public Mural, Downtown Laramie



PUBLICATIONS

2019 Lowery, Wesley and Bogage, Jacob, “Fifty years after the ‘Black 14’ were banished, Wyoming football reckons with the past,” The Washington Post, November 30, 2019.

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2018 Graham, Andrew, “Alleyway angels, and ghosts,” Wyofile, October 12, 2018.  



Victor, Jeff, “Mural celebrates Laramie’s historic social justice icons,” Laramie Boomerang and

Wyoming Tribune Eagle, June 30, 2018.



Ballard, Caroline, “Mural Recognizes Hidden Historical Figures of Wyoming’s Civil Rights Past,” Wyoming Public Media, June 28, 2018.



2017 CBS Sports Network, “Black 14 - Wyoming Football 1969” documentary 

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2015 Wolfson, Josh, “A Different Western: Artist Adrienne Vetter shares a different kind of Wyoming story,” Casper Star Tribune, April 24, 2015.



2015 Daly, Meg, “CULTURE FRONT: Revealing Wyoming’s flavors, complexities,” Planet Jackson Hole, March 18, 2015


2008 Klein, Andrew S., “Subtext: Beauty,” Arts section, Detroit Metrotimes, March 12 - 18, 2008.